I was watching Sora no Method 06, and at about 17:03 the line 今日は誘ってくれて嬉しかった came up. Crunchyroll translated the line as "I'm happy you invited me today," but the problem is that she was invited the ...

In books that I've come across and even in dictionaries, I've seen the word 「好きな」 translated as "favorite". I'm a little confused by this because 「好きです」 normally gets translated as "like", or in my ...

One time I was formulating sentences on a website, to practice my Japanese and get natives to correct them. I had written 「何が言ってわかりませんけど」 which I now understand was wrong, but when they corrected my ...

I can understand what the phrase means 「お世{せ}話{わ}になりました」- "Thank you for everything". But literally it's quite strange to me. Could you explain the logic of it?
Also would be very nice to know more ...

Japanese language is 日本語. But if I want to say The language of Japanese people - should I write 日本人の言{げん}語{ご}?
And if I want to say the same about animals, for example cat - like cat's language - is ...

こんばんは。I am new to learning Japanese and this website. I usually try to learn things of my own initiative, by searching up specific things I don't understand and trying to make sense of them myself. ...

I want to know if these pronouns are used in real situations. I saw them come up in some video games and wonder if people really use them.
我{わ}が輩{はい} - I've read that this an old usage word but I've ...

here is the link for the picture (in case it doesn't show up): http://online.mangaraw.net/get/img/174/837.jpg
In the last panel at the bottom of the page, she says "しょ__ -"
I'm not quite sure as to ...

I am having a hard time express the concept of striving to achieve something. I found a video of a monk online using the word 励む, but I am not sure exactly how to use it.
It seems it pairs with nouns ...

What is the difference between endings なし and 抜【ぬ】き when you want to exclude a certain ingredient from food?
Aside from 凍【こお】りなし when ordering soft drinks, I thought that for most other things 抜【ぬ】き ...